FCCB #217 - Anything Goes

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Challenge #217 Anything Goes

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For my project, I got my inspiration from Pinterest, here.  I'm still trying to get my wedding scrapbooks finished up, and I had a basket full of the cards we received that I wanted to do something with.  I saw this on Pinterest a while back, and thought it was the perfect way to keep our wedding cards.  Here's my version:

The colors are the colors we used for our reception - the papers are actually left over from various projects I made around the time of our wedding!  The front and back covers are two layers of chipboard glued together, then covered in cardstock.  I added a monogram to from the Tie the Knot cartridge to the front cover.  The ribbon is attached to the back cover with two brads, and then simply comes around the "book" to tie in the front.  The metal ring is 3.5" - the largest one I could find.  The book is a bit overstuffed, but it still works!

I hope you will join in the fun with us this week at FCCB!  Anything goes, so let your creativity go wild!!  Remember, to qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.  Thanks for stopping by!

Anniversary Card

Happy Saturday!  Is your weekend off to a good start?  I had a nice run with a girlfriend this morning - a cool, crisp fall morning.  It was beautiful!  Then my sweetie and I went to play golf - gotta get it in while we can before winter comes!!  I came home from golf and was able to finish up a card.

I made this card for my sweetie's dad and his wife, who are celebrating their second anniversary in a couple of days.

I found this dove on the Tie the Knot cartridge and framed it with one of my new Spellbinders dies - Lacey Squares.  I also added Glossy Accents to the heart.

The colors are from the colors of their wedding - black, cream and dark purple.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my card!

Recipe:
Cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Dove from Tie the Knot cut at 2.5 inches
Sentiment from Scrappy Moms Stamps Everyday Greetings
Twine from The Twinery
Glossy Accents

Wedding Album Cover Page

Happy Friday!  This has been a busy week for me and my sweetie and I have some fun plans for this weekend, so I'm doubly excited for Friday this week!!

As you may already know, I've been trying to get caught up on some of my scrapbooks lately.  One of the albums I've been slowly working on is an album of wedding pictures that family and friends took.  Faith Abigail did a wedding album series just a little while back.  I think she puts together fabulous layouts and was so excited to see her wedding album series since I'm working on my wedding album.  She put together a fabulous cover page for the album that you can see HERE.  When I saw her cover page I knew I was going to be scraplifting her design for my wedding album - I just loved it!

I basically kept all of the elements the same.  I think the only thing I changed was the font for our initials and the papers.  I really like the soft colors in the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 3 papers, so I've been using those throughout my album. I recently placed an order for some scrapping supplies that includes some papers in the same color scheme.  I'm excited to get that delivery!!  :-)

I hope you've all had a fabulous week and a wonderful weekend ahead of you!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Pattern cardstock from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 3
Large frame and shadow from Elegant Edges cut at 10.5 inches
Small frame and shadow from Elegant Edges cut at 4.75 inches
Bells from Wedding cut at 3.75 inches
Monogram from Tie the Knot cut at 2.5 inches
Initials from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 1.25 inches

FCCB 159 - Mother's Day

Happy Monday!  I hope you all had a fabulous weekend and were able to get some scrappin' done on National Scrapbook Day!

Monday means another fun challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut!  This week's challenge is Mother's Day and we want to see your fabulous Mother's Day cards!

I created this card for my grandma, who loves hummingbirds.  She has a hummingbird feeder on her back patio and she enjoys watching them come to eat.

I found this simple hummingbird image on the Lyrical Letters cartridge - not a cartridge I would have thought to look on for a bird image!  It's always fun when you find hidden images like that, I think!!

I popped the hummingbird up using pop dots to give it a little dimension and added pearls to the centers of the flowers for a little something extra.

Thanks for coming by to take a look at my project.  I'm looking forward to seeing your Mother's Day cards.  Be sure to link them up over at Fantabulous Cricut by Sunday evening!!

Recipe:

Cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections

Hummingbird from Lyrical Letters cut at 2.5 inches

Branch and flowers from Tie the Knot cut at 3 inches

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set

Pearl gems

White Sakura gel pen

I Do Layout

Happy Sunday!  Are you all enjoying your weekend?  I had an enjoyable day yesterday spending time in my craft room then going out to dinner with my sweetie's family.

This is one of the layouts I created yesterday - I'm trying to get caught up on my scrapbooking and have been slowly working on my wedding album.  We have an album with all the pictures in it that the photographer took, but so many of our family and friends had fun pictures of our wedding that I decided I wanted to make a scrapbook full of those pictures as well.

These pictures document a moment that my sweetie and I will never forget.  Not just because it's when we exchanged rings, but because the pastor performing our ceremony made it quite memorable.  As you can probably tell from the pictures, we were married on a beach in the Caribbean.  We stayed at a resort that had 16 wonderful restaurants.

In the top right picture above, my sweetie is trying to put the ring on my finger, but my fingers must have been swollen a bit because he was having a hard time getting it on.  The pastor promptly says, "Heather......Heather....you must have been spending too much time in the buffet line!" - which is why we are laughing in the bottom left picture.  In the bottom right picture I'm replying to the pastor, "At least my dress still fits!!"  Such memories, things we will never forget, and why I chose the "These are the moments" accent for this page.

A few more pictures of this portion of the ceremony are on this second page.

I couldn't get a good picture of the rings I cut with my Cricut, but I put glossy accents and glitter on the diamond for a bit of sparkle.  This picture does show the fun texture of the background paper better though.

Yesterday over at the Shop Pumpkin Spice Blog, each of the design team members hosted a different challenge.  Missy is hosting a layout challenge - create a one or two page layout, so I'm going to link this up over there.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my pages today!!

Recipe:
Textured Cardstock from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 3
Solid cardstock from Recollections
I Do from Tie the Knot cut at 2.75 inches
Rings from Sweethearts cut at 2.25
My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 3 Chipboard element

Anniversary Card

Happy Sunday!  I wanted to share the anniversary card I made for my parents.  I always like to try new card styles, so I decided to give a swing card a try.  It was easy to make and I really like the way it turned out.  I'll definitely be making more of this style of card in the future - an easy way to jazz up cards!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from DCWV
Bell from Tie the Knot cut at 2.75 inches
Frame from Elegant Edges cut at 3.65 inches
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set

Anniversary Explosion Box

Happy Saturday!  I hope you're all having a great weekend!  Last Sunday my parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.  They have insisted that we do not give them gifts, but I have recently seen some wonderfully crafty ladies post explosion boxes on their blogs and just had to give it a try.  I decided that their anniversary would be a great time to put together an explosion box with various pictures of them and their family through the years.

A few years ago, my grandparents scanned a number of family pictures and put them on DVDs for us.  I went through those pictures and was able to find a lot of pictures that would work for the box from those DVDs - including pictures of my parents graduating from Pharmacy School and their wedding!

The box that I made used 3 sheets of paper, so I was able to fit 20 pictures in the box.  It's hard to fit 40 years of memories in just 20 pictures, but I managed to get pictures of my brother and I as babies, young kids, teenagers, our weddings, as well as pictures of my parent's 3 grandchildren and their great-grandbaby, so I think I managed to capture many of the milestones.

My mom really seemed to like the album and was surprised that I was able to find so many old family pictures.  I had so much fun making this album!  Thanks for coming by to take a look!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from Bo Bunny
Pair of hands from Something to Remember cut at 2.75 inches
Love from Sweethearts cut at 2.25 inches
Family from Gypsy Wanderings cut at 2.25 inches
40 from Opposites Attract cut at 3 inches
Rings from Sweethearts cut at 1.9 inches
Monogram from Tie the Knot cut at 1.8 inches
Frame from Elegant Edges cut at 2.6 inches
Flower and leaves from Flower Shoppe cut at 3, 2 and 1 inches
Ribbon from my stash

Anniversary Card

Happy Tuesday!  Today is my grandparents' anniversary - 65 years of marriage!  I'm so happy for them, and even more excited because we get to spend some time with them this coming weekend.

One of the cards that my sweetie and I received for our wedding gave me the inspiration for this card.  The card we received was made by the wife of one of my sweetie's good friends.  She placed the initial for our last name down near the bottom on the front of the card and a 'newlyweds' embellishment on the top flap.  I loved the fold and the idea of the initial on the card and incorporated those ideas on my grandparents' card.

I started with a 4.25 x 12  piece of paper and scored it at 2 and 7.5 inches.  I cut my patterned paper at 4 x 1.75 inches and 4 x 4.25 inches for the mats, then added the dove, scallop circle and monogram cuts.  I finished it off with Glossy Accents and some crinkle ribbon.  Pretty easy!  Thanks for coming by!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Patterned cardstock from my stash
Dove from Tie the Knot cut at 2.5 inches
Monogram from Tie the Knot cut at 1.25 inches
Scallop circle from Tie the Knot cut at 2 inches
Sentiment from Hero Arts Everyday Sayings set
White Sakura gel pen
Glossy Accents
Crinkle ribbon

CTO Challenge #13

The challenge this week over at Celebrate the Occasion is a wedding theme and you must use ribbon.  I love when challenges fit a project I need to do anyway!  Next weekend, some friends of ours are renewing their vows, so I needed to make a card for them.  I think the image of this couple from the Sweethearts cartridge is so cute and we think it fits the couple well.  My sweetie also requested the 'love' image for the card, so I put that on the inside.  Thanks for stopping by to take a look!

Recipe:
Cardstock from Bazzill, DCWV and Recollections
Couple from Sweethearts cut at 4 inches
Love from Tie the Knot cut at 3 inches
Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder
Scallop Crop-A-Dile corner chomper
Ribbon from my stash
i-Rock gems and Stickles